New GitHub CLI Beta Lets You Access GitHub Directly From Terminal

If you love to work on open-source or collaborating projects, you must have used GitHub for hosting your code on a remote computer and collaborating with other developers across the world.

But using a Git locally and exiting the terminal each time to check the status on the GitHub web app is cumbersome. Therefore, GitHub has announced a new command-line tool “GitHub CLI” to interact with GitHub directly from the local terminal.

What does the new Github CLI offer?

GitHub brings a command-line application to execute the web GitHub events related to issues and pull requests from your local terminal.

You can use ‘gh’ command-line tool to interact with your hosted projects on GitHub and perform various actions.

GitHub CLI help

Here’s are some highlighted functions that you can perform directly from your terminal: